by Aimee Bender (Author)
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she's privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father's detachment, her mother's transgression, her brother's increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can't discern.
Author Biography
Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake--a New York Times bestseller--and An Invisible Sign of My Own, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: April 19, 2011
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 11
